Ousted Syrian president Bashar Assad has fled to Russia after Islamist rebels rolled into the capital Damascus and ended his despotic family’s 50-year reign of terror. Assad, who inherited the office from his father in 2000, reportedly slipped out of Syria early Sunday morning as rebels closed in on his palace. He arrived in Moscow…
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BEIRUT (AP) — Thousands of people fled the central Syrian city of Homs, the country’s third largest, as insurgents seized two towns on the outskirts Friday, positioning themselves for an assault on a potentially major prize in their march against President Bashar Assad. The move, reported by pro-government media and an opposition war monitor, was…
Dec. 6 (UPI) — Romania’s Constitutional Court Friday canceled the presidential run-off election between far-right candidate Calin Georgescu and centrist Elena Lasconi. The court cited a Russian propaganda campaign as the reason. The court said in a statement that its decision two days before the run-off was to occur “annuls the entire electoral process regarding…
WARSAW, Dec 5 (Reuters) – Poland signed a $4 billion loan under the United States’ Foreign Military Financing program that will help finance the transformation of its armed forces, the Polish defence minister said on Thursday. “This is another proof of enormous trust and strong alliance between Poland and the United States of America,” Wladyslaw…
Syrian rebels say they have taken full control of a second major city, after the military withdrew its troops from Hama in another setback for President Bashar al-Assad. The leader of the Islamist militant group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), Abu Mohammed al-Jawlani, declared “victory” in Hama and vowed there would be “no revenge”. Earlier, HTS…
Chinese state hackers, known as Salt Typhoon, have breached telecommunications companies in dozens of countries, President Biden’s deputy national security adviser Anne Neuberger said today. During a Wednesday press briefing, the White House official told reporters that these breaches include a total of eight telecom firms in the United States, with only four previously known….
Dec. 5 (UPI) — The European Commission Wednesday issued a retention order to TikTok to preserve data on the Romanian election and for upcoming EU elections amid suspicion of Russian interference in the vote. “We ordered TikTok today to freeze and preserve all data and evidence linked to the Romanian elections, but also for upcoming…
The annual list of the most popular baby names in England and Wales has been released by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) and it’s clear the UK has favourites The baby names that parents in the UK love the most have been revealed – and some may surprise you. The Office for National Statistics…
South Korea’s president shocked the country on Tuesday night when, out of the blue, he declared martial law in the Asian democracy for the first time in nearly 50 years. Yoon Suk Yeol’s drastic decision – announced in a late-night TV broadcast – mentioned “anti-state forces” and the threat from North Korea. But it soon…